Your Next Skill: Skateboarding for Kids
Find resources for learning how to skateboard. Below are several different resources--books and streaming videos--which may help you begin learning how to skateboard.
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Skateboarding Skills
From selecting your board, to learning which way to stand, to landing a kick flip, this book provides critical instructions for new riders
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Skateboarding
The great tricks of today are built upon the pioneering feats of skateboarding's legendary riders. Tony Alva, Lance Mountain, Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, Jason Lee and so many others paved the way for the worldwide skateboarding movement and lifestyle. Discover the stories behind their legendary tricks and learn how to do the tricks yourself.
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Mastering Skateboarding
Two-time world champion skateboarder Per Welinder teams up with longtime skateboard advocate Peter Whitley to bring you the techniques and tricks used by the pros.
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Skateboarding
Instructional guide to learning skateboarding tricks on handrails. Explores tricks in sequential photographs with captions. Also discusses the history of rail skateboarding and includes biographies of influential riders.
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Skateboarding
Serious skaters looking for unusual and innovative tricks will find them in this skateboarding instructional guide. The tricks run the gamut from classic old school to modern with an emphasis on diversification, creativity, and originality. Included are riding basics and tips for controlling fear, visualizing, and focusing. Sequential shots detail every move needed to successfully re-create the various skateboarding tricks. The mechanics of the sport are also covered, including types of boards available, and the various wheels, bearings, and skateboarding surfaces.
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Beginning Skateboarding
Beginning Skateboarding is the perfect program for anyone wanting to learn and master the basics. Among the topics covered are: equipment, stances, ollies, kickturns, carving and pumping, manuals, dropping in, axel stalls, tail stalls, grinds, rock to fakies, ollie 180s, 50-50 grinds, fakie rocks, melon grabs, indy grabs, fakie half cabs, pop shuvits, roll ins, boardslides and kickflips.
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Learn How to Skateboard for Kids - YouTube
An intro to skateboarding basics made just for kids and parents. Focuses on the basics of foot placement, pushing and riding on the skateboard.
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10 Things Every Beginner Should Know How To Do Well - YouTube
This video is aimed towards helping out beginners learn to be more comfortable on the board while trying to teach some practical things at the same time.
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